Remote Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Description:

• The Cloud Engineer is a customer-facing junior-to-mid-level technical role that works directly with Enterprise Architecture and Technology Leadership.
• This role involves planning, building, and implementing modern cloud infrastructure and application solutions.
• Responsibilities include identifying, evaluating, and executing the development and implementation of infrastructure on Azure.
• The engineer will perform analysis on existing Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and on-premises application systems to make and implement recommendations for operational efficiency, security & governance, and high availability across enterprise-wide, global application systems.
• The role requires migrating enterprise application workloads, workflows, processes, and automation to the Azure ecosystem using industry standard and proprietary processes & technologies.
• The engineer will support current state analysis and collaborate with enterprise architects to build target state architecture, contributing to design sessions and technical solutions.
• Leveraging infrastructure-as-code (Bicep, Terraform) and automated processes (Azure DevOps pipelines) is essential to implement solutions reliably and repeatedly.
• The engineer must define and clearly communicate requirements to stakeholders and work as a team member across the complete life cycle of delivery including architecture, design, development, testing/validation, and documentation.
• Supporting operational handoff to customer-facing teams is also a key responsibility.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have at least 2-4 years of experience in Systems Administration or comparable experience such as Windows Server administration, Linux systems administration, or database administration (SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• A minimum of 1 year of experience with the Azure cloud platform or comparable experience on Amazon Web Services is required, specifically supporting infrastructure deployments, network deployments, and infrastructure-as-code or systems scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience working in collaboration with senior architecture or technical leadership resources to ensure the deployed infrastructure meets functional and operational requirements is necessary.
• Candidates should have an understanding of high availability and disaster recovery principles, patterns, and applications.
• Experience supporting Production applications or workloads, with the ability to perform tests and troubleshoot related issues, is required.
• Preferable, but not required, is experience in a consultative role or an engineering role working with more than one client environment at any given time.
• Preferable, but not required, is experience modernizing, refactoring, and/or deploying enterprise applications.
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or Healthcare is preferred, but not required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $75,000 to $115,000 a year, along with bonuses.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance is provided, with the company paying 75% for the employee and all dependents.
• Employees receive three weeks of paid time off annually, in addition to nine paid holidays and floating holidays.
• An annual conference and/or training budget is available for professional development.
• The work environment is fully remote, with local co-working options available.